Details

Date Published

Date Built

CPU Clock Rate

CPU Temperature While Idle

34.0° C

CPU Temperature Under Load

67.0° C

GPU Core Clock Rate

1.698 GHz

GPU Effective Memory Clock Rate

8.008 GHz

GPU Temperature While Idle

36.0° C

GPU Temperature Under Load

68.0° C

Description

Well, this is my first ever build, and to be quite frank, I thought I would I would break everything in the system in one way or another. But when I pressed the power button and it booted up, the absolute joy I felt after 3 hours of assembly was all worth it.. And I used to game on an i3 laptop (which is running 5 years old now!) and a PS3. And after testing some games I drew my conclusion, the difference is night and day. And my initial build was going to have a i5-6500 and in a mini itx chassis, but I thought why the hell not just go and make this build look and function just as good. Basically every game I've tried on this computer runs it swimmingly. Streaming is most certainly possible. This build is now running a few years old and hasn't shown its age in the slightest.

And thanks to the PCPP community for helping me on my 2.5 year journey finding parts!

Part Reviews

CPU

Perfect CPU, even though it's locked, it's still a brilliant CPU. It can stream games and juggle a few Chrome tabs as well. Couldn't choose any other CPU. (in my opinion.) (UPDATE: CPU is starting to show its age as it starts slowing down occasionally. Otherwise I would still recommend this CPU.)

CPU Cooler

As a first time installer of any cooler, it was quite annoying, spending over 1hr 30mins just to get the thing installed, but it keeps my CPU well within the mid 20s and only ever touches 45-50 degrees Celsius under a streaming load.

Video Card

This card is absolutely insane. It just is. And moving up from PS3 and Intel HD Graphics, I can tell you now, this card is absolutely PERFECT. I would SERIOUSLY recommend this card to anyone. Never reaches above 55-60 Celsius. Overclocking on this card in particular is OK, I wouldn't trust the card around 2GHz core clock, although it is possible, it is very unstable.

Power Supply

This power supply is absolutely overkill, but I didn't want to have a small power supply humming away noisily, so this was a great option, and it's modular, keeping cable clutter down. It's very quiet as well, and can keep a stable 200Mhz overclock on my 1060.